On a game i play there is a built in video/screen capture. However it saves the screen movie in .sdm format and ive been asured by a friend that its possible to convert .sdm files into a format vuiwable in movie form. Could someone please tell me where to get a converter from? or how to do it.

Ive been serching for ages.

how large are these sdm files for how long a recording?

take a look at fraps and see how you get on with it as well.

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Sony STR-DE425 & Eltax c205s;
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xBox - standard;
Konica/Minolta dimage z10 w/2x512mb SD;
iRiver h340;
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about a 5-10 minute recording will be 10mbs big. Ive used fraps but i have an awefull computer so it dramaticly reduces the FPS rate whilst im playing. The same applys for camtasia

2mb a minute sounds like it's NOT recording it as a video file, but as a series of instructions and co-ordinates telling the game where you (and your opponents/team-mates) were when the game was being recorded, what you were doing, etc.

What game?

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AMD Athlon 1700 (@2200mhz from 1466 sod the noise!) - 768mb pc3200 - 200GB Maxtor - Pioneer 106 - GF4 Ti4200 - twinhan/visionplus pci dvb-t - random pci analogue tv tuner - A7v600-x (to replace the a7n8x-d that died...) - random 17\" CRT
Sony STR-DE425 & Eltax c205s;
xBox w/20GB HDD- executer 2.3b;
xBox - standard;
Konica/Minolta dimage z10 w/2x512mb SD;
iRiver h340;
A silly amount of Cat-5 and usb cables